TWO cricket fatalities in a week, and it is much too much. The unlikely deaths on the pitch of Australian batsman Phillip Hughes in Sydney, and Israeli umpire Hillel Oscar in Ashdod, last week have reestablished a stern reminder about the unpredictability of life. And the might of divine power. Cricket, a sport played at a snails pace, has forever been regarded as a gentlemans game played by gentlemen with the least conceivable propensity to cause bodily injury, except perhaps a peeling skin as a result of sunburn. So, it came as a big shock to learn about the misfortune.
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